Sunday 29 March 2015

Hiking on wet Sunday in western Sarawak (29 March 2015)

An unidentified species of yellow colored Bromheadia orchid from jungle in western Sarawak. Probably it is Bromheadia borneensis var. borneensis.


Begonia sp.

Bucephalandra sp.

costus ginger

The petals of Bulbophyllum nabawanense (orchid) got eaten by insects.

Pit viper

Nepenthes hispida

Bulbophyllum sp.

Aridarum crassum

Schismatoglottis motleyana

Nephelaphyllum sp. (terrestrial orchid) from western Sarawak.

Amorphophallus pendulus




Ant plant

Coelogyne sp.




Thursday 26 March 2015

Begonia baik from jungle of western Sarawak

Begonia baik is a member of section Petermannia, It has very short red coloured hairs on the leaf surface,











Tuesday 24 March 2015

Exploring at ultramafic mountains of north Borneo - part 1


What a lucky day to meet the rare parrot of north Borneo: Blue-naped parrot (Tanygnathus lucionensis)!!!!

Meet this new and undescribed species of Bucephalandra again from north Borneo.....under leaf, stem & petiole are reddish coloured. New young leaf is dark brown coloured.....

Rhododendron retivenium

Begonia sp.

Bucephalandra ultramafica

Schismatoglottis sp.

New Homalomena with Bucephalandra

Dendrobium secundum

Crepidium damusicum 


Alocasia melo

New Bucep. on wet cliff

New species of wild ginger!

Schismatoglottis sp.

Bush fire!

Taeniophyllum filiforme (leafless orchid)

Blue-naped parrot (Tanygnathus lucionensis)

Crepidium damusicum 

Nepenthes macrovulgaris


New Schismatoglottis sp. "tricolor"

Crepidium metallicum with new Homalomena

New Homalomena

New Bucephalandra


Probably Thrixspermum triangulare

Crepidium damusicum 

Aridarum sabahense